Friend's fingernails: three tone nail art

One cold Sunday my friend Madelief came over to get her nails done.

The Monthly Man-icure: November

Hello pretty polish pals (am I getting too creative with my greetings now?)! It's time for the second monthly man-icure (check out the last edition here). This time my boyfriend Sebastian (or for short: Seb) chose two nail polishes by Catrice.  

The Monthly Man-icure: October

"The monthly man-icure?", I can hear you think, "what is that?". Well, it's L'Ongleterre's latest item, and my plan is to make it a recurring one! 

This item is a twist on the classic 'My boyfriend chose my nail polish'. For 'The Monthly Man-icure', Sebastian, my lovely boyfriend, will pick out one to three nail polishes and I have to create a manicure with those. 

After snooping around my stash he proudly presented me these polishes:

Thanks to the bf for hand modeling

These are OPI -You only live twice and Catrice - Heavy Metallilac. If you want to know how I used these two for my manicure, read on...

2013 Nail Art Challenge: (4) A polish that you grabbed randomly

Soft sunlight

For this part of the 2013 Nail Art Challenge I decided not to grab a random polish but to create a random number and use that to pick a polish from my stash file. I did this because I know that I will never be able to fully randomly grab a polish since not all bottles are the same size/shape. I also didn't want to ruin the order in my Helmer. Anyway, the number I got was:

2013 Nail Art Challenge: (2) A polish that's your favourite

Hello there! It's time for the second part (challenge? stage? what shall I call this?) of the 2013 Nail Art Challenge. It was too hard to pick my ultimately favourite nail polish so I decided to use the favourite that was most recently added to my collection: Catrice Mint Me Up. Beware: this post has a  LOT of pictures.

All I can Confetti

Hello there! Today I have a happy, bright manicure to show you! I bought Catrice I All I can Blue with 50% reduction and I knew I had to do a festive manicure. I took this post from 'The boxes under my bed' as my inspiration.

 

My most frequently used base coats

I think it's bad that I never wrote something about my base- or top coats! I didn't include them in my stash file and I hardly ever mention using them, but they serve me every time I paint my nails... so after the jump there's a little something on my base coats, the top coats will be starring in their own post.

Glitter fade

Sparkle sparkle sparkle!!

 

More sparkly pictures after the jump ;)

Pretty petrol

No straight stamping but I still think this looks nice! ^^

An apple a day keeps the doctor away (:

Catrice - forbidden apple (LE)

Catrice - sea of green (LE)

Arianna - white striper

Maybelline - chocolate 
MAX - natural 

30 day nail challenge (4/30): GREEN

For the fourth challenge I decided to try out a 'saran wrap manicure' for the first time!

I got this result by simply stamping on the lighter shade with a little ball made of saran wrap:

 Used:

NYC - Mint Macaroon

Catrice - Sea of green

Saran wrap :D

 Up next: blue! (I'm thinking pastels...)

30 day nail challenge (1/30): RED

Day one of the 30 day nail challenge! Theme: red.

 

Manicure:

Catrice - Marilyn & me

Accent nail:

Essence - Perfectly true

Catrice - Sea of green 

ENAS stamp A10 - cherry, 

stamped with Konad red polish and Sea of green.

Up next... Orange!

Happy stripes

 Essence - perfectly true

Gosh - Wild lilac

Catrice - Forbidden apple

Catrice - sea of green

Claire's - yellow 

Candy stripes

Catrice - Sold out forever

Arianna - White Striper